
Class of '73 



U. Of M. 




1873 1 888 



RECORD 



OF THE 



CL^SS OF '73, 



University of Michigan. 



DETROIT : 

Ferguson Printing Companv, 

95-97 Woodward Ave. 

1888. 



i S73 






Dear Classmates : 

At our last reunion, held at Ann Arbor June 29, 1887, 
I was instructed to prepare a Class Circular, giving the present 
location and occupation of "the hoys (?) of 73;" and, thinking 
that a brief sketch, also, of each member since graduation would 
prove of general interest, and tend to revive our old-time class 
spirit by bringing us into a closer acquaintance with each other 
again, after these many years of drifting apart, I determined as far 
as possible to secure a personal response from each one, feeling con- 
fident that the accuracy of such a report would more than com- 
pensate for the extra delay occasioned thereby. This his proved 
a much more difficult task than it appeared at the outset, as some 
of us have moved about a good deal in the fifteen j'ears since 
leaving college, and, in many instances, there had been no report 
at all since graduation; so that it is only within the past few days 
that the last of the " missing links " was located and the record 
thus made complete. 

You are. therefore, particularly requested for the future to 
notify your Secretary immediately of any change in your address 
or business, in order that he may be able at all times to answer 
correctly any of your inquiries for class news, and, also, to reach 
you promptly in making announcements and in calling future 
reunions, the exact date of which frequently cannot be fixed upon 
long in advance. 

In addition to the eighty-one who comprised the Class of '73 
on Commencement Day, there are included in this record the 
nimes of three of our former classmates who, although they did 
not run the full course with us, have still kept the faith, and gave 
fresh proof of their loyalt}" by being present at the last reunion. 

There are also many other ex-members of "Old Seventy- 
three." especially those who were associated with us in the hazing, 
rushing and other Faculty-defying experiences of our Freshman 
and Sophomore years, whose names and faces often come back to 
us in pleasant reminiscence, and in whose welfare we shall always 
feel a most friendly interest; but, as some of them graduated sub- 



seqiiently with other classes, and the iuformation concernins; most 
of them is partly of a hearsay character, it did not seem advisable 
to attempt to embody them in this report. 

Your Secretary, however, will gladly answer any of your 
inquiries concerning them as far as he is able, and you in turn are 
requested to forward to him all the information you may have 
regarding any of these quondam members of our class whose 
whereabouts you are acquainted with. 

As will be seen from a perusal of the record, our loss by death 
has been unusually large — no less than thirteen ha^ing already 
been called away from the midst of busy and prosperous careers 
by that mysterious Providence, the wisdom of whose decrees we 
dare not question, though they often seem so hard to bear. 

In the roll-call at reunion there were tears in many eyes and 
the prevailing air of gladness was quickly sobered whenever the 
name of one of our dead classmates was called, and the sense of 
our great loss was only the more deeply impressed upon us as each 
honored name received in turn a most hearty tribute of affection- 
ate remembrance. 

To the families and friends of our dead brothers, acquainted 
as thej^ are with the strong bond of fellowship for which '78 has 
always been especially noted, it is unnecessary to say that those 
present at the reunion, in the resolutions there adopted, only gave 
formal expression to the sentiment of the class at large. Neitlier 
do they require at our hands anj' set form or words to assure them 
that we are all fellow mourners with them in their great bereave- 
ment; and that with us, as with them, the names of their beloAcd 
dead will ever be held a most sacred and pleasing memor3^ 

Of those who are living, while there are of course various 
degrees of prosperity represented, the record bears us out in claim- 
ing that all, without a single exception, are at least making a 
business success in the line of their chosen life-work, and are till- 
ing positions of honor and usefulness in the communities where 
they reside. So that, while perhaps it may be a trifle disappointing 
to our class pride that no member of '73 has, as yet, achieved any- 
thing like a national reputation in literature, politics or finance, on 
the other hand it is very gratifying to be able to boast that out of 
all our large number no one has made a wreck of his manhood, 
or done aught to bring discredit on his Alma Mate?' or the class. 

In short, the worst charge that can be brought against '78 
seems to be that, after fifteen long years of golden opportunities — 



only waiting to be embraced — there are still twenty old bachelors^ 
remaining on our list. For these "wretches," individually, jour 
Secretaiy has nothing to offer in the way of extenuation — they 
must furnish, if they can, their own excuse; but, in helialf of the 
class, it may be urged in partial justification, that the panic of 
1873, occurring as it did at the very outset of our career, when our 
hearts were in that highly susceptible condition which Senior year 
in college always engenders, naturally chilled our Romeo-like 
ardor somewhat by bringing the ' ' bread and butter question " so 
prominently into the foreground, and no doiibt exerted a strong 
anti-matrimonial influence upon us as a class. 

How^ever, as will be seen from the record, some have gallantly 
striven to make up for the deficiencies of others; so that, on the 
whole, the class makes a very creditable exhibit in the posterity 
line — our "second edition of 73" already numbering considerably 
over one hundred. Could we only come together next reunion en 
masse, "wives and children all included, wouldn't we be an up- 
roarious class?" 

And why can we not? At least, let each one of us determine 
to be there, if it is a possible thing, and thus make our gathering 
in 1890 a reunion in the fullest sense of the word. 

In the meantime, urging upon jon the desirability of as fre- 
quent an interchange of visits and correspondence as possible, and 
invoking a continuing growth in us of that esprit die corps which 
shall never fail to call forth "cheers for the living, and tears for 
our dead," I am. 

Yours in '73, 

WM. (WllRIER MATHEWS, 

Class Secretary. 

Flint. Mich., August, 18SS. 



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Class of 73, 

U. OF M 



William Benson. — Went to Europe soon after 
graduation, and spent three years in travel and study on 
the Continent. Made a short visit home in 1876, and 
then returning to Germany, was engaged in laboratory 
work at Leipsic and Berlin, 1876-78, and at Heidelberg, 
1878-81. He then came home for a second visit, and 
again returning, studied at Munich for the next three 
years. Came back to Detroit in 1885, where he remained 
until April last, when he again crossed the Atlantic, and 
is now travelling on the Continent. "Benny" is still a 
bachelor, but not quite so bashful as of yore. 

His Detroit address is 597 Jefferson Avenue. 

Arthur Giles Bishop. — Returned to his home at 
Flint, Mich., in the summer of 1873, and soon after accep- 
ted the position of teller in the Genesee County Savings 
Bank, which place he still holds. 

"Bish" was married Sept. 24, 1879, to Miss Carrie 
Spencer, of Flint, and has one son. 

Frank E. Bliss. — Was engaged in civil engineering 
1873-75, being located successive^ at Cleveland, Pitts- 
burg and Detroit. Studied law the next two years in 
Wisconsin, "and kept the wolf from the door by playing 
baseball with a professional team." Entered the Law 
Department of the University in the fall of 1877, and 
graduated with the class of '79. Located in Cleveland 
that summer, and has practiced there ever since. 



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"Blissy" was married ISTov. 9, 1881, to Miss Louise 
S. Fish, of Cleveland, and in the game of life he holds 
" three of a kind " — all boys. 

Address Room 12, Mercantile Bank Building. 

Albert Augustus Borchers. — Was bookkeeper in a 
banking house at Hamburg, Iowa, 1873-75, and for a 
wholesale grocer}'- firm at Cheyenne, Wyoming, 1875-77. 
He then engaged in the grocery business on his own 
account at Dead wood Gulch, Dak., two years, and in the 
produce and transportation business at Leadville, Col., 
two years. The following year he tried his hand as a 
railroad contractor at Gunnison, Col., but the fickle god- 
dess still eluded him. He then spent four years in pros- 
pecting through Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and 
California, bringing up finally at San Diego, where, as 
Secretary of the San Marcos Land Co , he is now engaged 
in helping to boom "the glorious climate of Californy." 

Borchers was married in 1876 to Miss Mary H. 
Jacobs, of Hamburg, la., and has two daughters. 

Address 1633 State St., San Diego, Cal. 

Alfred Erskine Brush. — Returned to Detroit after 
graduation, and has resided there continuously since. Is 
engaged in the real estate business, but his time is prin- 
cipally occupied with the management of his father's 
extensive estate, of which he is one of the Trustees. 

"Al" was married Mav 17, 1878, to Miss Hunt, of 
Toledo, and has four children — all girls. 

Address 206 Randolph St. 

Eliot Hunt Brush. — Commenced the study of law 
in Detroit, but his health soon began to fail and, being 
obliged to seek a change of climate, he went to Santa 
Barbara, Cal., in the fall of 1876. It was too late to 
obtain relief, however, his lung trouble developing into 
quick consumption, from which he died Jan. 29, 1877. 



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His remains were brought home to Detroit for interment. 
Unmarried. 

Dwight Nathan Burritt. — Taught school at Mill- 
burn, 111., durino' the winter 187o-74, and the following 
summer he was engaged as bookkeeper in a wholesale 
house at Rockford, 111. In the spring of 1875 he emi- 
grated to California and, after a few months spent in 
prospecting located at Pomona, where he has remained 
ever since. Was principal of the public schools 1875-80, 
since which time he has given all his time and attention 
to horticulture. He is a member of the firm of Eno, 
Burritt & Co., with office on 2d St., Pomona. 

Was married Dec. 19, 1876, to Miss Clara A. Reeves, 
of Rockford, 111., and reports five sons and a daughter, 
a showing which fairly entitles him to the Family Man's 
Championship Belt, as both the other contestants — 
Burton and Robison, who also tie this score, have been 
married several years longer. 

Clarence M. Burton. — Left college in the spring 
of 1871 (in company with forty-six other members of 
'73 who incurred the displeasure of the Faculty by 
"bolting" their regular recitations to take a one day's 
course in zoology under Van Amburgh) and spent the 
next year in doing astronomical work under Prof. 
Watson during the summer, and teaching school during 
the winter. In the fall of 1872 he returned to the Uni- 
versity and entered the Law Department, from which 
he graduated with the Class of '74. He then went to 
Detroit, and entered the office of Ward & Palmer, where 
for the next ten years he made a specialty of examining 
real estate titles. In 1884 he purchased the Wayne 
County Abstract Records of Ward & Skinner, and since 
that time he has built up such an extensive business and 
reputation in this line that now no one would think of 



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' buying a piece of real estate in Detroit without requiring 
a Burton abstract. 

Clarence was married to Miss Hattie J. Nye, of Ann 
Arbor, Dec. 25, 1872, and since then has accumulated 
rather more than his pro rata share of the three F's — 
Fame, Fortune and Family, the last of which is exactly 
similar in number and sex to Burritt's, thus proving, 
beyond question, that the climate of Michigan is fully as 
healthy as that of California. 

Address Abstract Bldg., Lafayette Ave. 

Wilbur Buzzell. — Was instructor at Norwich 
University, Vt., 1873-74. Took post graduate studies 
at Ann Arbor, and taught at Kalamazoo 1874-75. Then 
returned to Norwich University and spent one year as 
Instructor of Languages. Was engaged in public school 
work at Lafayette and Attica, Ind., 1876-81, when he 
quit teaching and took up the study of dentistry. Grad- 
uated from the Dental Department of the University in 
1883, and soon after located at Port Clinton, O., where 
he is still engaged in the practice of his profession. 

Was married in Sept., 1875, to Miss Carrie Mathews, 
of Ann Arbor, but has not yet tasted of the joys of 
paternity. 

William Carrier Mathews. — (Known in college 
by his adopted name — Carrier), taught in the Flint High 
School 1873-75, and was admitted to the Genesee County 
bar on examination in the summer of 1875. Entered 
the Boston Law School in the fall, and graduated there- 
from in May, 1876. Practiced law at Flint, Mich., dur- 
ing 1877, and took a trip to Europe the following year. 
Was Principal of the Fenton High School 1879-81, since 
which time he has been engaged in the law and real 
estate business at Flint. 

Is the sole survivor of several local Bachelor Clubs. 



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William Flint Clarke. — Was employed in the V. S. 
Revenue office at Flint, Mich , 1874-75, and then removed 
to East Saginaw, where he remained from 1875-83, occu- 
pying the positions of Deputy Collector of Internal 
Revenue and President of the Herald Printing Company. 
Accepted a clerkship in the office of the State Superin- 
tendent of Public Instruction at Lansing in 1883, and 
was appointed Dep'y Supt. of Public Instruction in 1885, 
which office he still holds. 

Was married in 1884 to Miss Dell DeLand, of East 
Saginaw, and has one child — a daughter. 

Henry Reed Cocker. — Was boookkeeper for Cook 
& Langworthy, Bay City, 1873-74, and the next year 
was engaged in the lumber business at Ann Arbor. 
During 1876-77 was in the Law Department at the Uni- 
versity. Then took a trip to England, and returning, 
was bookkeeper for the Howe Sewing Machine Co. at 
Cleveland 1878-81. From 1881-83 was bookkeeper for 
the Northwestern Fuel Co. at St. Paul, and the following 
year was Sec. and Treas. of the North Star Coal Co. at 
Minneapolis. Then removed to What Cheer, la., where 
he now holds the position of Sec. and Gen'l Man. of the 
What Cheer Coal Co. 

Was married Nov. 23, 1880, to Mrs. Belle Andrews, 
of Cleveland, O., and has three (step) children. 

Charles Henry Dane. — Entered the Law Depart- 
ment of the Universitv in the fall of 1873, and oraduated 
in the Class of '75. "Located at Los Angeles, Cal,, 
ready and willing to practice law; but, not finding a 
sufficient demand for my legal services, I engaged for 
some time in postoffice work." In 1879 he removed to 
Arizona, and for the next four years was engaged in a 
general forwarding and commission business in connec- 
tion with the building of the Southern Pacific R. R. 



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Upon comj^letion of the road to Deming, New Mexico, 
he located there permanently, and in May, 1883, organ- 
ized the Commercial Bank of Deming, which, in 1885, 
was merged into the First National Bank. In the fall 
of 1886 he organized the First National Bank of Silver 
City, N. M., and has filled the position of President in 
both banks since their organization. In addition to his 
banking business, he is senior partner in the firm of C. 
H. Dane & Co., furniture dealers, at Deming, and is also 
interested in three cattle companies in the Territory. 

Was married in 1876 to Miss Mary L. Chase, of 
Lyndon, Vt , but a resident of Ann Arbor during 1871- 
72, and has three children — all boys. 

John Henry Darling. — Was located at Detroit, in 
the employ of the IT. S. Lake Survey, the most of the 
time as Assistant Engineer, from 1873-82, with the ex- 
ception of a six months' trip to Europe in 1878, when 
the Survey Department was short of funds. In July, 
1882, the lake survey being completed, he obtained a 
y)Osition as draughtsman in Major Allen's office at St. 
Paul, on the work of River and Harbor Improvements; 
and continued doing draughting and field work until 
August, 1884, when he was assigned to take local charge 
of the harbor improvements at Duluth and Superior 
City, with the rank of Ass't Engineer." 

This position he still holds, his office address being 
52 Fargusson Bldg., Duluth, Minn. 

AVas married to Miss Addie A. Ford, of Tecumseh, 
Mich., Feb. 25, 1880, but no "dear little dough-faced 
darlings " have called him papa yet. 

Herbert Erastus Davis. — Taught school in South- 
ern Michigan during 1873-74. Entered the Theological 
Seminary at Auburn, N. Y., in 1875, and graduating 
therefrom in 1878, immediately entered upon the work 
of the Presbyterian ministry. Spent the next six years 



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in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the most of the 
time at Negaunee. Accepted a call toPetoskey in 1884, 
and remained there until last summer, when he removed 
to Homer, Mich. 

Is married, and has two children — both eirls. 

Wilhelmus Decker. — Was eno^ao^ed in book can- 
vassing and farming near Howell, Mich., 1873-74, and in 
school work at Marine City and ISTew Baltimore 1874-76. 
Was married to Miss Emma Adams, of Marion, Mich., 
Dec. 28, 1875, and in the fall of 1876 they both entered 
the Medical Department of the University, and gradu- 
ated together in the Class of '78. They located at Mt. 
Clemens, Mich , the same year, and entered upon the 
practice of medicine together. 

On the morning of April 27, 1881, he started out 
with three friends for a few days' fishing on Lake St. 
Clair, but no one of the party ever came back alive. It 
is supposed they were overtaken by a sudden squall and 
their boat upset sometime that afternoon. His body 
was not recovered until May 30, when it was found near 
Grosse Point and sent home to Mt. Clemens, where the 
funeral occurred on the evening of Decoration Day. 

He left no family except his wife, who is still a prac- 
ticing physician at Mt. Clemens. 

Charles Leander Doolittle. — Was employed on 
the Norchern Boundary Survey 1873-75, being engaged 
a part of the time in the field and the remainder of the 
time in ofiice work, first at Detroit and afterwards at 
Washington. In September, 1875, he was appointed 
Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in Lehigh 
Universit}'-, at South Bethlehem, Pa., which position he 
still holds. 

In answer to the request for date of his marriage, 
"Doo" answers (like the small boy as to when he was 



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born), "It's so long ago I've forgot;" but we all re- 
member that he was a married man when he first entered 
college; and, as he reports three sons and a daughter, it 
is safe to presume he is a married man yet. 

Samuel Townsend Douglas — Took a post grad- 
uate course in laboratory work and graduated ic the 
Pharmacy Class of '74. Was assistant in the Chemical 
Laboratory three years, and then spent one year in the 
Law Department; after which he removed to Detroit 
and entered the law office of Douglas & Bowen, and was 
soon thereafter admitted to the firm. Judge Douglas 
has since retired, and the firm name is now Bowen, 
Douglas & Whiting, 80 Griswold Street. 

" Sam." ran for the legislature once, and literally 
" came within one of it," being defeated hj just one vote. 
Although still a bachelor, his intimate friends almost 
without exception regard him as "a marrying man," and 
Sam. himself does not deny the soft impeachment. 

Sidney Corning Eastman. — Commenced the study 
of law in the office of Gookins & Roberts, Chicago, 
shortly after graduation, and was admitted to the bar 
on examination by the Supreme Court of Illinois, July 4, 
1876. He immediately started in business on his own 
hook, and has been engaged in the general practice of 
law in the " Garden City " ever since. 

For several years " Sid." was generally regarded as a 
bachelor in good and regular standing, but his frequent 
visits to his " Abna Mater " finally took on a suspicious 
air, and when his marriage to Miss Charlotte Hall, of 
Ann Arbor, was announced for June 9, 1886, his friends 
at last pei'ceived why " Maid of Athens " had always 
been such a favorite song with him. 

Office address, 78 Dearborn St. 

Henry William Elliott. — Reports as follows from 
San Francisco, on his way to Alaska: "Attended law 



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lectures at Lebanon, Tenn., 1873-74. The next year I 
opened an office and starved at Austin, Texas. Then 
went west and landed busted in the Great American 
Desert. From 1876-82 played the role of prospector, 
miner and occasional Indian hunter. Practiced law at 
Silver City and Kingston, N. M., 1882-86, and have 
spent the past two years in travelling over the United 
States and paying doctors' bills, having nearly gone 
blind in 1886. Not married. Will surely attend the 
next reunion." 

From another source I learn: " Harry Elliott is one 
of the best known and most popular men in Southern 
New Mexico today. He makes his headquarters at 
Kingston, and is senior member of the law firm of 
Elliott, Pickett & Elliott. In addition to an extensive 
law practice he owns one of the lichest mines in the 
Territory. About two years ago his eyes gave out 
from overwork; and, though they are better now, he 
dare not use them as formerly. Consequently, having 
all the money necessary for a bachelor's happiness, he 
spends a large part of his time in travelling." 

James H. Emery. — After leaving college in 1871 
was engaged in newspaper work at Jackson and Detroit 
for the next two years. From 1873-77 he was engaged 
first as telegraph editor and then as city editor of. the 
Toledo Morning Commercial. In 1877 he was appointed 
official Stenographer of the Lucas County (Ohio) Court 
of Common Pleas, and has held that position ever since. 

Was married June 21, 1870, to Miss Helen M. Har- 
ford, of St. Johns, Mich., and has two boys, the elder of 
whom was present with his father at the reunion. 

Thomas Emery. — Was engaged as a builder at 
Midland, Mich., 1873-74; at East Saginaw, 1874-76; and 
at Detroit the following year. Was next engaged in 
the roofing business at Toledo for about a year, after 



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which he returned to East Saginaw, and located there 
permanently as an architect and builder. 

Was married to Miss Carrie Atwater, of Saginaw 
City, Sept. 18, 1879, and reports one son and one 
daughter. 

Address 507 S. Webster St. 

Henry Waterman Fairbank. — Travelled in the 
music business the first year after leaving college. From 
1874-79 he taught music in the public schools at Flint, 
Mich., and the next two years he travelled through the 
Southwest for W. W. Kimball, of Chicago. Was Pro- 
fessor of Vocal Music in the Flint schools again, 1881-83 
and, as private secretary of the Fusion candidate for 
Governor, took an active part in State politics. The 
next two years he was located at Detroit, first as Asst: 
Commissioner and then as Commissioner of Immigration. 
From 1885-87 he was Sec'y and Gen'l Mngr. of the Lime 
Island Mnfg. Co. of Detroit, and during this period he 
was generally referred to by the State press as "the 
Poobah of Wah-bah-be-gun " (the Indian for Lime 
Island). In 1887 he resigned this position and is now 
with the Root & Sons Music Co., 200 Wabash Ave., 
Chicago. 

Was married to Miss Hattie Yan Riper, of Dexter, 
Mich., Nov. 6, 1874; but, though a musician of the first 
water, Henry is not yet able to sing "Peek-a-boo," etc., 
eon spirito^ as a married man should. 

Frank Ward Farr. — After graduation returned to 
his home in Chicago, and was preparing to start for 
Japan, where he was offered a lucrative position as 
teacher, when he was attacked with erysipelas, terminat- 
ing in congestion of the lungs, and died Sept. 23, 1873, 
after an illness of only three days — the first death in the 
class and especially sad, coming so unexpectedly and at 
the very opening of a seemingly prosperous career. 



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Edwin Jacob Ferdon. — Was engaged in the lum- 
ber business with his father at Ann Arbor 1873-76, and 
then took one course of law lectures at the University 
1877-78. From 1878-81 he was superintendent of the 
J. H. & T. Lee lumber firm at Howard City and Lake- 
view, Mich. He then went into the lumber business on 
his own account at Detroit, where he remained until bis 
death, which occurred Nov. 10, 1881, from a relapse of 
malarial fever, after an illness of eleven days. The 
remains were taken back to Ann Arbor, his former 
home, for burial. 

His wife {nee Miss Etta M. Lee, of Lancaster, N. Y., 
to whom he was married June 17, 1879), and two sons, 
survive him. 

AA^illiam Henry Fox. — Started for New Zealand in 
August 1873, intending to locate there permanently; 
but, after remaining six months, changed his mind 
and returned to Detroit via Australia and California — 
thus completing a trip around the world. The next year 
he studied law in Alfred Russell's office, and then entered 
the Harvard Law School, where he graduated in 1877, 
and was admitted to the bar of Massachusetts. Again 
returning to Detroit, he took up his permanent residence 
there and devoted himself to the practice of his profes- 
sion until his death, which occurred Nov. 19, 1887, from 
typho-malarial fever, after an illness of about five 
weeks. His remains were interred in Elmwood Ceme- 
tery, Detroit. 

He was married Dec. 1, 1880, to Miss Elizabeth B. 
Miller, a daughter of Gen'l Morris S. Miller, of the U.S.A., 
at Utica, N. Y. ; and his widow and a son, born the 
month following his death, survive him. 

Elias Durfee Galloway. — Returned to his home at 
Howell, Mich., in the summer of 1873, and took up the 
business of a lumber manufacturer and merchant, as a 



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member of the firm of Foster, Blackman & Co., and has 
continued in the same line ever since. His business 
headquarters were at Howell until 1877, since which 
time thej^ have been at Big Rapids, He is on the road 
a large share of the time attending to the outside work 
of the firm. 

"Durf." has grown quite aldermanic of late years, 
but shows no signs 3'^et of douhling tip in any way 
except in size. 

Address Howell or Big Rapids, Mich. 

Herschel Robert Gass. — Spent the first year after 
graduation in farm work at his home near Romeo, Mich., 
and the next three years filled the position of Professor 
of Sciences at Yincennes University, Ind. Taught at 
Vernon, Mich., 1877-78, and was then employed as 
Superintendent of Schools at Jonesville, Mich., until 
1833, when he was appointed State Supt. of Public In- 
struction, and in 1884 he was re-elected to the same 
position. Is now engaged in the hardware and coal 
business at Flint, Mich., and it is a cold day when a 
score or more of his puzzled fellow citizens do not play 
an unwilling part in the " Comedy of Errors," by mis- 
taking him for M. T., or vice versa. In short, the twins 
resemble each other as closely now as in college days, 
when the one who was best prepared used to do the 
reciting for both; and Prof. Pattengill used to take the 
precaution to first enquire, " Is this you or your brother ?" 
Some of the victims say there ought to be a law against 
their both living in the same town ! 

H. R. claims he is still in statu quo, matrimonially, 
though every little while the local press announce that 
"Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Gass went to Fenton (or some- 
where else) todaj^;" and thus he is kept busy allaj^ing 
the suspicions of his young lady friends. 



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Marshall Thomas Gass (the other Gass) — Was 
engaged as General Agent in the subscription book busi- 
ness in Indiana and Canada 1873-74. The next six years 
he was engaged in school teaching at Fenton, Mich., first 
as Principal, and afterwards as Superintendent. He 
then removed to Flint, where he was Superintendent of 
the public schools until 1883, when he resigned to accept 
the Superintendency of the Michigan School for the 
Education of the Deaf, located there, and he still fills 
that position most acceptabty. 

M. T. was married August 24, 1876, to Mrs. Grace 
Birdsall, of Fenton, Mich., and has two (step) children. 

Henry "Wisew^ell Gelston. — Entered the Union 
Theological Seminary, N. Y. city, in the fall of 1873, 
and graduated therefrom in 1876. Was pastor of the 
Presbyterian church at North ville, Mich., 1876-84, when 
he was obliged to give up work on account of failing 
health and went to De Land, Volusia Co., Florida. The 
following spring he assumed the pastorate of the Pres- 
byterian church there, and still holds that position. He 
reports his health better, but not yet fully recovered. 

Was married in June, 1876, and has one boy, who 
•'is a chip of the old block," Henry says. 

Clark Hough Gleason. — Entered the Law Depart- 

nent of the University in the fall of 1873, and graduated 

n the Class of '75. Located at Grand Rapids, Mich., in 

^lay of that year, and has resided there ever since. 

^'irst formed a partnership under the firm name of 

i'allass & Gleason, which was dissolved in 1878, and 

hen practiced alone for three years. In 1881 he formed 

I is present partnership of Gleason & Bundy, with offices 

m^ Power's Opera House Block. 

, Not married (but this report is subject to change, as 
he still betrays his old time weakness for the opposite 
sex.) 



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James Riddle Goffe. — Taught school at La Porte, 
Ind., and Kenosha, Wis., ISYS-'ZQ, and then went to N. 
Y. City for training in medical school and hospital 
work. After graduating, he located there for practice; 
and now holds the positions of Visiting Physician to the 
Orphans' Home, Ass't Visiting Physician to the Skin 
and Cancer Hospital, and Instructor in Diseases of 
Women in the N. Y. Poly-Clinic School of Medicine. 

" Jimmy " is also counted with the bachelors still, 
but frankly confesses he "does not yet feel proof against 
the charms of the sex." 

Address 326 Lexington Ave. 

William Wallace Granger. — Taught school in 
Iowa the first year after graduation, and then returning 
to Michigan, spent the next three years in farming. In 
the spring of 1877 he emigrated to Oakdale, California, 
where he was engaged in teaching during the winters 
and in farm work summers, until Feb., 1882, when he 
entered into the drug business at Modesto, Cal., and has 
resided there ever since. 

Was married Jan. 3, 1882, to Miss Helen H. Lang- 
worthy, of Langworth, Cal., and has two children — 
both boys. " ' 

Robert Spear Gross. — Was Head Master of a 
Military School at Tarry town, N. Y., 1873-75, and then 
entered the Gen. Theolog. Seminary, N. Y. City, from 
which he graduated in 1878. Was Asst. Priest at St. 
Peter's and Trinity Churches, N. Y. City, the next four 
years. Held the position of Fellow at the Gen. Theolog. 
Seminary two years, and was then called to the Rector- 
ship of St. John's Church at Delhi, N. Y., which position 
he resigned in the fall of 1886, on account of feeble 
health. He then returned to Trinity parish, N. Y. Ciiy, 
and performed part duty until the fall of 1887, 
when he was obliged to give up and go South for the 



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winter. He was unable to obtain any benefit, however, 
from the change of climate, and died at Eustis, Florida, 
Feb. 10, 1888, of catarrh of the stomach. 

Was not married. 

Frank Ward Guernsey. — Located at Lamars, la., 
and was Co. Surveyor and pedagogue 1873-75. Was 
in the postoffice the next two years; then Co. Surveyor 
and Co. Supt. of Schools for four years. Was engaged 
in the lumber and real estate business 1881-83, and the 
next two years returned to his first love — surveying. 
Emigrated to Nebraska in 1885, and tried banking and 
insurance. In 1886 he removed to Dayton, Washington 
Territory, where he now holds the position of Asst. 
Cashier of the Columbia Nat'l Bank. Continuing, he 
writes: "Was married June 14, 1876, and have one 
child — a boy. Physically, I am hale and hearty, but 
don't feel as frisky as when we raised sidewalks in Ann 
Arbor lo! these many years ago. Religiously, I am 
about the same as when " Elder " Davis and I used to 
play "pitch" with Knappen, "Pete "and the other hard 
cases. Politically, I am a Republican, with slight tinges 
of liberalism, but not a Mugwump. My door is always 
open to any member of '73." 

Mary Francis Hapgood. — Taught at Mankato, 
Minn., one year, and was then Principal of the High 
School at Rockford, 111., for two years, which position 
she was obliged to resign on account of failing health 
and she soon became a helpless invalid. During the 
next four years she tried several changes of residence 
and various methods of treatment, but without finding 
any relief; and then went to the Sanitarium at Battle 
Creek, Mich. Her mental troubles grew gradually 
worse, however, until December 14, 1881, when she was 
pronounced hopelessly insane, with suicidal tendencies, 
and was removed to the insane asylum at Kalamazoo. 



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Here she gradually failed, until Jan. 16, 1886, when she 
died very suddenly from a violent spasm of the heart. 
She received every possible attention during her illness, 
and, after her death, the remains were taken to Adrian, 
Mich., her former home, for interment. 

Richard D'Armond Harrison. — After graduation 
returned to his farm near Princeton (his P. O. address), 
111., and has devoted his time mainly to stock raising 
ever since. "Dick" was married Oct. 13, 1874, to Miss 
Warren, daughter of a Massachusetts minister, and is the 
proud father of the *' Class Baby," and two other sons. 

The "Class Baby," born July 20, 1875, is named 
Edwin (after Ferdon) Warren Harrison, and is now a 
bright, stalwart looking boy in his fourteenth year — 
almost old enough to be a Freshman. He is very proud 
of his title; and, judging from the excellent cabinet 
photograph sent by his fond mamma to the reunion, '73 
may be equally proud of the relationship. 

Henry Marsh Haskell. — After being "on the 
fence " for a while, entered upon the study of medicine. 
Took one course of lectures at the University, and then 
went to N. Y. City, where he graduated from the Belle- 
vue Hospital Medical College in 1878. Returning to 
Michigan, he practiced two years at Mt. Pleasant, and 
then removed to Palmer, Marquette Co., where he now 
holds the position of Physician and Surgeon to the 
mines located there. 

Is married, and has one child — a boy. 

W^ayne Hayman. — Entered the Law Department 
of the University in the fall of 1873, and graduated in 
the Class of '75. Spent the next year in Europe in 
study and travel^ and upon returning continued his legal 
studies at Reading, Pa., where he was admitted to the 
bar in November, 1878. Remained in practice there 
until September, 1885, during which time he held the 



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office of City Solicitor. Then spent a year and a half 
prospecting in " the wild and woolly West," but returned 
East last spring and located at Washington, D. C. 
Address 2108 H. St. N. W. 

Was married October, 30, 1878, to Miss Mary A. 
McCarty, of Reading, Pa. ; " not a pater familias yet, 
but still have hopes." 

William John Head. — Was located at Chicago, 
1873-76, being in a coffee broker's office the first year, 
and after that in the employ of the Star Union Line. 
Then accepted a position as Cincinnati agent for Geo. 
Bullen & Co., Maltsters, Chicago, and remained there 
until April, 1887, when he removed to Kansas City, to 
take his present position as Sec'y of the Ferd. Heim 
Brewing Co. 

Not married. 

"Billy" writes: "If '73 will appoint its next reunion 
at Kansas City, I will provide a hall similar in design 
to that of Rettich''s, and see that each and every mem- 
ber gets/«//-valae for the cost of his trip." 

John Maynard Hemingway. — Was Principal of 
the Union School at Dryden, Mich., 1873-74. The fol- 
lowing year he removed to Iowa and entered the State 
Law School. Was admitted to the bar in 1875 and lo- 
cated at Hampton, in that State, the same year, where 
he continued in practice until Dec. 11, 1886, when he 
sold out his good will to his partner. Held the office 
of County Attorney one term and was City Attorney for 
several years. "Removed to Kansas City in May, 1887, 
and am now located in a city with a prospect of a glo- 
rious future, that is, the city has a prospect, not I." Re- 
ports a strong penchant for breeding blooded horses, 
but don't think "ponying" in college had anything to 
do with it. 



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Maynard was married September 3, 18 7 7, to Miss 
Natallia Zimmerman of Hampton, la., and has three 
children — one daughter and two sons. Office address, 
411 & 412 Alamo Building. 

George Hiram Hopkins. — After leaving the Lit- 
erary Department at the close of the Freshman year, he 
re-entered the Law Department and graduated with the 
Class of "71. The same year he located at Detroit and 
was appointed Assistant Attorney for the D. & M. 
R. R., which position he held from 1871-79. He also 
acted as Private Secretary for Gov. Bagley, 1873-76, 
and for Gov. Croswell, during the legislative session 
of 1877. From 1879-81, he was engaged in the general 
practice of law, but on the death of Gov. Bagley, in 
1881, by his will he was appointed one of the execu- 
tors and trustees; and since then he has devoted his time 
mainly to the management of the Bagley Estate. Be- 
sides being interested in a number of local business en- 
terprises, George has also found time to dabble con- 
siderably in politics. He was a member of the Michigan 
legislature from ] 878-84 and during the last term he was 
Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Speaker 
pro tern. He was Chairman of the Wayne County Re- 
publican Committee for four years, and now he is Chair- 
man of the State Central Committee. 

Not married yet-"haven't had time to look around," 
he says. 

Albert P. Jacobs. — Returned to Detroit and studied 
law with Walker & Kent 1873-75. Was admitted to 
the bar by the Supreme Court June 17, 1875, and grad- 
uated from the Law Department at the LTniversity the 
following year. Located at Detroit, where he has re- 
mained ever since. 

Office at No. 4 McGraw Building. Is the author of 
Jacobs' Reference Digest of the Michigan Reports. 



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"Jake" has not developed any marked conjugal 
symptoms as yet, but is said to be still true to the first 
love of his college days — a Nymph in Grecian myth- 
ology. 

Charles Butler Keeler. — Went to Chicago in the 
summer of 1873, and commenced the study of law in the 
office of Judd & Whitehouse, attending the lectures at 
the Union College of Law at the same time. Graduated 
in July, 1875, and was admitted to the bar by the Su- 
preme Court of Illinois that fall. The following year 
he located in Cedar Rapids, la., and has remained there 
ever since. Practiced alone till 1878, when the present 
partnership of Mills & Keeler was formed. The firm 
makes a specialty of railway business, being Attorneys 
for the C, M. & St. P. Ry. Co. in that section. Was 
in poor health for some time from overwork, but a trip 
to Europe in 1884 brought him out all right again. 

Was married June 2, 1881, to Miss Nellie C Rock, 
of Cedar Rapids, and has two boys. 

^A/^alte^ Monroe Keenan. — Commenced the study 
of law at Chicago in the fall of 1873, in the office of 
Gen. H. H. Thomas, and was admitted to the Illinois 
bar in 1875. Practiced a few months and then aban- 
doned the legal profession for the dry goods commission 
business; which seemed to offer more lucre if less fame, 
and has been engaged in that line continuously since 
1876. 

His present business address is 232 La Salle Street, 
Chicago. 

His business acquaintance with the costly nature of 
dry goods, as well as the large amount of them required 
by the average family man, is the only reason Keenan's 
friends can give why he has never succumbed to the 
blandishments of the sex of whom he is confessedly a 
great admirer. 



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Joseph R. Keeney. — Returned to his home near 
Tipton, Lenawee Co., Mich, (his P. O. address), imme- 
diately after graduation, where he has been engaged 
ever since in the management of his large stock farm. 
He makes a specialty of raising horses and sheep for 
the Texas and Colorado market. 

"Joe" was married Oct. 31, 1876, to Miss Maggie 
Perry, of Tipton, and has three children— two boys and 
a girl. 

Charles Edward King. — After receiving his sheep- 
skin returned to his home at Ypsilanti, Mich., and went 
into the grocery business with his father under the firm 
name of C. King & Son, which partnership still con- 
tinues. Was " across the big pond " at the time of our 
last reunion, but is home again now and his name ap- 
pears on the Democratic ticket as candidate for Member 
of the State Board of Education. 

" Charley " is still a bachelor and claims " it is not 
my fault;" but a fellow who could live single all these 

years 

"Way down in Ypsilanti, 
Where the girls they are ,so jaunty," 

will get very little sympathy from his fellow classmates, 
who remember how their heartstrings used with diffi- 
culty to withstand the ab-Normal strain of the eagerly 
anticipated Lyceum night visitation. 

Loyal Edwin Knappen. — Was engaged in teach- 
ing and studying law at Hastings, Mich., 1873-15. Was 
admitted to the Barry County bar in ugust, 187 5, and 
became a junior partner with Hon. James A. Sweezey, 
at Hastings, under the firm name of Sweezey & Knap- 
pen. The partnership expiring by limitation in 1878, he 
"played it alone " awhile and then formed his present 
partnership of Knappen & Van Arman. Was Prosecut- 
ing Attorney, 1879-83, and has also held the offices 
of City Attorney and Pres. of Board of Education. 



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Was married to Miss Mellie I. Hadley, of Hastings, 
Oct. 23, 1876, and two boys and a girl conspire togeth- 
er to " reduce the surplus " in his bank account. 

Joseph Marvin Lewis. — Taught school for a while 
at Concord, Mich., and then returning to the Universitj'', 
took the degree of M. S. He then entered the Medical 
Department and graduated therefrom in 1876. That 
summer he located at Jackson, Mich., and associated 
himself with Dr. Cyrus Smith in the practice of medi- 
cine; and this connection continued until his death, 
which occurred , March 31, 1883, from a lung difficulty 
which culminated in pneumonia, after a protracted ill- 
ness of nearly three years. 

His wife, to whom he was married at Ann Arbor Dec. 
8, 1874, and one son, seven years old, survive him. 

Henry Howell Lockw^ood. — Returned to the 
University in October, 1873, and worked in the Labora- 
tory, studying Mineralogy and Assaying until the 
following June, when he started for Georgetown, Col. 
Here he remained six months, trying his hand at 
assaying, mining and ranching, and then struck out for 
California. The first two years he spent in farming, 
school teaching and engineering, and then he engaged 
with a wholesale importing house in San Francisco, 
where he remained until the fall of 1884. He then re- 
moved to Niles, Alameda Co., where he has been located 
ever since as '"' Superintendent and proprietor of a Chick- 
en Orphan Asylum, in which the orphans are produced 
artificially and know of their own knowledge 'What is 
home without a mother ? ' " Henry thus becomes one 
of the favored few who can laugh at the old adage, 
" Don't count your chickens before they're hatched ! " 
He is another dried up old bachelor. 

John Alexander McEldowney. — Studied law in 
Chicago, 1873-75, in the offices of Judd & Whitehouse, 



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and Rich & Millard, and in 1875 was admitted to the 
bar by the Supreme Court of Illinois. Acted as law clerk 
for Rich & Millard a few months and then went into 
practice on his own account, first as a member of the 
firm of Norcross & McEldowney, and afterwards under 
the firm name of Baker & McEldowney. Spent the sum- 
mer of 1882 at his old home at Bloom, 111., and in 
October of that year removed to Fargo, Dakota, where 
he has remained ever since. His oftice is located in the 
Stern Block. 

"Old Mack" writes: "I have no partner in business 
or matrimony. Am a Democrat in my political faith and 
endorse the present administration. I believe in a tariff 
for revenue only, and favor the admission of Dakota as 
one State. " 

Judson Gregory Pattengill. — Was a tutor in 
Denison University at Granville, O., 1873-74, and then 
returning to Michigan, was Principal of the High School 
at Pontiac 1874-76. He then accepted a similar position 
in the Ann Arbor High School, and has retained it ever 
since. 

"Pat" was married Dec. 29, 1875, to Miss Sara 
Ewer, of Mendon Center, N. Y., and has one child — a 
daughter. 

Sherwood Raymond Peabody. — Travelled in 
Europe 1873-75, and then returned to Detroit, which 
continued to be his home until the time of his death. 
The state of his health precluded him from engaging in 
any active business and finally his mental troubles so 
grew upon him that, a few weeks after his marriage, he 
voluntarily went into the asylum at Canandaigua, N. Y., 
for treatment. Here he soon developed a suicidal mania, 
and on the morning of May 11, 1879, he succeeded in 
escaping from his attendant and by means of his pocket 
handkerchief hung himself from a tree in the public 



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park. His remains were brought home to Detroit for 
interment. 

His wife {7iee Miss Whiting, of St. Clair, Mich.), to 
whom he was married Oct. 27, 1878, survives him. 

Joseph William Perkins. — Taught school during 
the winter of 1873, and the following year he was en- 
gaged as Architectural Draughtsman at Chicago, and 
Springfield, 111. From 1875-78, he was employed as 
Architect and Draughtsman in the Industrial Works at 
Bay City, Mich., and during the next three years he 
was engaged in similar work in the office of D. W. 
Gibbs, at Toledo, O. Went west in 1881 in the em- 
ploy of the A. T. & S. F. R. R. as Draughtsman and Ar- 
chitect, being stationed first at Las Vegas, N. M., and 
then at Topeka, Kansas, where he has been located con- 
tinuously since 1882. 

Was married to Miss Elizabeth Wines of Ann Ar- 
bor, Dec. 3, 1877, and has two children — a boy and a 
girl. 

Harry Otis Perley. — Was a student at the Detroit 
Medical College 1873-76, and held the position of House 
Surgeon at St. Luke's Hospital the last year of his course. 
Took his M. D. in April, 1876, and spent the summer in 
Europe. On returning he was commissioned Assistant 
Surgeon in the U. S. Army, and has since been stationed 
successively as follows: 1876-77 at Fortress Monroe, Va.; 
1877-79 at Fort Pembina, Dak. ; 1879-81 at Fort Assin- 
niboine, Mont.; 1881-83 at Governor's Island, N. Y. H.; 
1883-86 at Fort Pembina again; 1886-87 at Fort Snel- 
ling, Minn.; and now at Fort Wayne, Mich., where he 
expects to remain the next two years. Was promoted 
to the rank of Captain and Asst. Surgeon in 1881. 

Was married to Miss Kate Brooke Baylor, of Gov- 
ernor's Island, N. Y, June 23, 1883, but does not 
inventory a perambulator in his domestic outfit yet. 



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Herbert Dwight Peters. — During the fall and 
winter of 1873 was engaged in newspaper work, in 
Detroit, and the following year he removed to Monti- 
cello, III. Here he started the Piatt County Herald, 
and has continued to publish it ever since, adding on the 
business of dealer in stationery and druggists' sundries 
in 1885. "Pete" is now entitled to the prefix of "Hon.,'' 
having served as Representative in the Illinois Legisla- 
ture 1881-83. 

Was married to Miss Anna Huston, of Monticello, 
June IV, 1879, and has two boys. 

George Francis Robison. — Was engaged on the 
editorial staff of the Detroit Free Press 1873-76 and at 
the same time commenced the study of law. Was ap- 
pointed Deputy Clerk of the Superior Court in 1876, and 
Clerk the following year. In 1878 he was admitted to 
the bar on examination and immediately opened an 
office in Detroit for general practice; but after a few 
months was appointed Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, 
and continued as such for the next six years. In 1884, 
" Rob " was elected Prosecuting Attorney, and still 
holds that position. His great popularity is ascribed 
by envious political rivals to his marked personal resem- 
blance to " Honest Old Abe, " and he is quite generally 
known by the soubriquet of Abraham Lincoln, among 
his friends in Detroit. 

Was married August 15, 1869, to Miss Mary A. 
Keeler, of Grass Lake, Mich., and when he takes his 
two boys and four girls out for a walk he presents such 
a patriarchal appearance and gives them such good moral 
advice that they never suspect their father once be- 
longed to that celebrated band of desperadoes, known 
in college as the " Junior Brigands. " 

Marshall Key Ross. — Was connected with the U. 
S, Lake Survey Corps 1873-78, and then commenced the 



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study of medicine with Dr. McGraw, at Detroit. After 
taking the degree of M. D. at the University he returned 
to Detroit, and located there for the practice of his pro- 
fession; but he soon developed a serious heart trouble 
and a rapid increase of flesh, which his friends at first 
thought an evidence of good health, proved to be only 
a symptom of disease, and he died of fatty degeneration 
of the heart Dec. 4, 1883. 

At the time of his death he was Asst. Surgeon in the 
Harper Hospital and Lecturer in the Detroit Medical 
College. 

He was not married. 

Henry Russel — (as he now signs his name, though 
his old friends all call him "Harry" yet), returned to 
Detroit immediately after graduation and commenced 
reading law in Alfred Russell's office. Was admitted to 
the Wayne Co. bar in September, 1875, and has been 
practicing in Detroit ever since. Is now the Attorney 
for the Mich. Cent. R. R. Co., and senior member of the 
law firm of Russe] & Campbell, Campau Building. 

Was married to Miss Nellie Muir, of Detroit, June 
3, 1880, and has three daughters. 

George Rust. — Was engaged in the lumber and 
salt business at East Saginaw, Mich., 1873-80; when, 
being obliged to seek a change of climate on account of 
failing health, he removed to Denver, Col., and has 
resided there ever since. In 1881 he went into the 
wholesale hardware business, but found it too hard wear 
and sold out in 1884; since which time he has been a 
dealer in real estate and mining properties. 

" Rusty " is another who succumbed to the inevit- 
able in Centennial year, having met his fate in Miss 
Jessie Edsall, of East Saginaw. 

One son completes his family. 

P. O. address, box 2563. 



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Zar Delavan Scott. — Was employed on the U. S. 
Lake Survey until the close of 1873, and the following 
year removed to Minneapolis, where he was engaged as 
traveling salesman in the sash, door and blind business 
until the spring of 1880. He then located at Duluth, 
in the same business, under the firm name of Scott & 
Holston, and has remained there ever since. 

Was married June 1, 1875, to Miss Frances A. Gage, 
of Lyons, Mich., and has two daughters. 

Mrs. Scott is also a graduate of the University, of 
the Class of '72, and (ergo) Zar boasts that he is the 
pater of the first Jull blooded grandchild in our Alma 
Mater's large and rapidly growing family. 

William Smith Sheeran. — Returned to Detroit in 
the summer of 1873, and commenced the study of law 
with W. A. Moore. Occupied the position of Clerk in 
the ofiice of the Register in Bankruptcy 1873-79, when 
he was admitted to the Wayne County bar and at once 
entered upon the practice of his profession. Was elect- 
ed City Attorney by a handsome majority in 1885, and 
still holds that office. " Billy " doesn't play base ball 
much nowadays, but still manages to stray up towards 
the diamond occasionally when "the (ex) world-beaters" 
have an extra good game on tap. 

Is still faithful to his vows of celibacy. 

Volney Morgan Spalding. — Spent two years in 
High School work at Battle Creek and Flint, Mich., 
and then returning to Ann Arbor, pursued post gradu- 
ate studies for a year. The next year he took special 
studies at Harvard, Was appointed Instructor in Bot- 
any and Zoology at the University of Michigan in 1877, 
and the following year took a trip to Europe; and 
studied Histology for a time at Philadelphia. Since 
1878 he has been in charge of the department of Botany 



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at the University, and for the past year has acted as 
special agent of the Forestry Division of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. 

Volney was married Sept. 8, 1876. No children. 

Clarence Moore Stephens. — Was engaged in the 
manufacture of cigars at Mt. Clemens, Mich., for a time 
and held the office of County Surveyor there for two 
years. Then he went west and spent several years in 
the Yellowstone Park region as a member of the U. S. 
Engineer Corps. Returned to Mt. Clemens in 1886 and 
engaged in the hardware business. 

" Stevey " was married to Miss Lizzie Smith, of Mt. 
Clemens, in October, 1887, and shortly after removed to 
Tacoma, Washington Territory, where he has an interest 
in some silver mining properties. 

Charles Cummings Stewart. — Entered the Law 
Department of the University in the fall of 1873, and 
graduated in the Class of '75. Went to Detroit and 
occupied the position of clerk in the law office of H. M. 
Cheever for three years. In 1878 he branched out for 
himself and is now practicing under the firm name of 
Stewart & Galloway, Telegraph block, Detroit. 

Was married April 4, 1883, to Miss Susie Ellis, of 
Toledo, O., who died without issue the following year. 

Ernest Taylor Tappey. — Was employed on the U. 
S. Lake Survey 1873-77, and then commenced the study 
of medicine at Detroit. ' Held the position of Asst. 
Resident Physician in Harper Hospital one year, and 
then went to IST. Y. City, where he graduated from the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1879. Studied 
abroad one year, and returning to Detroit, was taken 
into partnership by Dr. D. O. Farrand, who died two 
years later, since which time he has practiced alone. 



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Was married to Miss Pamela W. Waterman, of 
Detroit, October 26, 1880, and has two daughters. 
Address 141 Fort St. West. 

Edward Ernest Thayer. — Returned to Flint, 
Mich., and took up the study of law. Was admitted to 
the Genesee County bar on examination in 1874. Spent 
one year in the office of Griffin & Dickinson in Detroit, 
and then returned to Flint, where he opened an office 
under the firm name of Gaskill & Thayer. Mr. Gaskill 
retiring, he formed a new partnership under the firm 
name of Howard & Thayer, which continued until his 
death. 

Was married to Miss Imogene Stanly, of Flint, June 
13, 1883, and died June 10, 1884, of heart disease, after 
an illness of several months, leaving a widow, but no 
issue. 

Albinus Levi Todd. — Was Superintendent of the 
public schools at Ionia, Mich., 1873-78, and tlren ex- 
changed teaching for farming. Was located until quite 
recently near Carson City, Mich., and made a specialty 
of breeding fine horses. " Am now located in Chicago 
and engaged in the real estate business at 206 W. Madi- 
son St., uiider the firm name of A. L. Todd & Co., but 
still cling to my stock farm, where I have a fine track 
and fifty head of horses, bred in the most popular 
strains." 

Was married to Miss Nettie A. Blanchard, of Ionia, 
Mich., Dec. 23, 1876, and has one son. 

Cyrus Obadiah Tower. — Taught school in New 
York State 1873-74, and was Superintendent of Public 
Schools of Charlotte, Mich., 1874-77. The next three 
years he was Supt. of Schools at Dowagiac, Mich., and 
then removed to Chicago. There he was engaged in the 
commission and brokerage business until a year ago, 



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when he embarked in his present business, that of bakery 
lunch, at 53 Fifth Ave., Chicago. 

Was married in 1874 to Miss Emma C. Johnson, of 
Ann Arbor, who died in 1878, leaving an infant daugh- 
ter. In 1882 he married Miss Eva J. Kohlsaat, his 
present wife. His family now numbers two girls and 
one boy. 

Charles McKinstry Van Cleve. — Taught school 
from 1873-78, occupying the position of Professor of 
Mathematics in the Michigan State Normal School at 
Ypsilanti, and then spent two years in Germany study- 
ing chemistry. Returned home in 1880, and concluded 
to "Go West, Young Man." Located at Leadville, Col., 
as an assayer and chemist, where "Van" now reports 
himself engaged — not to be married, but " in the ardu- 
ous pursuit of the fugacious dollar, which generally 
finds refuge in some other fellow's pocket." 

Office address, 110 East 6th St. 

William Voigt. — Went to Germany soon after 
graduation in 1873, and spent three years, studying 
architecture in the Royal School of Architecture at 
Berlin. Returned to this country and was engaged in 
engineer work 1876-83 in connection with the U. S. 
Lake Survey, and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 
R. R. Came back to Detroit in 1883, and has since 
been engaged in the brewing business there under the 
firm name of A. Ochsenhirt & Co., 142-148 Sherman St. 

Was married May 23, 1882, to Miss Anna Ochsen- 
hirt, of Detroit, and has three children — one boy and 
two girls. 

Franklin Hinman Walker. — Returned to Detroit 
and has remained there continuously since, with the 
exception of a trip to Europe in 1879 and again last 
year. Is a member of the firm of Hiram Walker & 



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Sons, Distillers, Millers and Maltsters their business, 
location being at Walkerville, Ont. 

Was married to Miss May Holbrook Oct. 1, 1874, 
and came near disputing the honors of the Class Cup by 
becoming a father just twenty-eight days later than 
Dick Harrison. As the case stands, Frank consoles him- 
self bj'- claiming that he has " the Class Girl " in his 
family at any rate. 

Address 154 Lafayette Ave. 

Charles Russell Wells. — Located at Bay City, 
Mich., and became connected with the Bay City Indus- 
trial Works, mfrs. of Special Railway Appliances, at 
the organization of the Company in 1873 as Secretary, 
and in 1877 was elected Treasurer also, both of which 
positions he still holds. Has also been a Director in the 
Bay City Street Railway Co. since 1875, as well as 
Director in the Bay City Gas Light Co., and its Secre- 
tary and Treasurer since 1884. 

"Charley" was married Nov. 29, 1882, to Miss 
Isabella S. Fitzhugh, of Bay City, and has one son and 
one daughter. 

John L. White. — Spent two years in teaching and 
then began the study of medicine with Prof. Frothing- 
ham at Ann Arbor. Entered the Medical Department 
of the University in 1876, and graduated with the Class 
of '78. He soon after located at Williamsburg, Mich., 
where he continued in the practice of his profession up 
to the time of his death, which occurred Sept. 13, 1885, 
after an illness of but one day. A post mortem examin- 
ation revealed the fact that his death was caused by 
cerebral apoplexy. The remains were taken to Ann 
Arbor for burial. 

His wife, {nee Miss F. Estelle De Puy,) of Ann Arbor, 
to whom he was married April 5, 1876, and four chil- 
dren, survive him. 



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William Brown Williams. — Was principal of the 
High School at Lapeer, Mich., lSlS-15. Spent the next 
two years in the Law Department of the University, 
and was admitted to the bar in April, 18V7. Returned 
to Lapeer and formed a partnership under the firm name 
of Geer & Williams Jan. 1, 1878, which still continues. 

"Billy" was married June 26, 1879, to Miss Lucy 
Hubbard White, of Lapeer, and thinks " It's nice to be 
a father" of four bright bouncing boys. 

Josiah Wyatt Willis. — Spent two years at Bay 
City, Mich., as architect, builder and pedagogue. 
Taught school the next two years at Gowanda and 
Buffalo. Was agent in Western New York for Barnes 
& Co.'s text books during 1877-78, and since that time 
has occupied the position of Principal of Grammar 
School No. 13, at Buffalo. Devotes his spare time to 
the work of life insurance, in which he expects to engage 
as soon as his cheek hardens a little more. 

Was married in 1879, and makes a very creditable 
census report — three boys and two girls. 

P. O. address, 57 Mariner St. 

Charles Lyman Wilson. — Spent the summer of 
1873 in farm work at his home at Port Byron, N. Y,, 
and the remainder of the year he was principal of the 
High School at Charlotte, Mich. His health becoming 
impaired obliged him to give up teaching, and he again 
returned to farming, which he followed from 1874-82. 
From 1882-84 he was employed at field work connected 
with the New York State Survey. He then put in 
another year on the farm, and the following year trav- 
elled for D. M. Ferry in W. Va., Penn. and N. Y. Feb. 
1, 1886, he entered the office of Snedicor & Hathaway, 
wholesale mfrs. of boots and shoes, 205 Woodward 
Ave., Detroit, and has remained with them ever since. 

Not married. 



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Charles Scotto Wilson. — Read law and attended 
lectures at the Chicago Law School 18'73-'75. Was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Sept., 1875, and practiced in Chicago 
until December, 1879, when he caught the western fever 
and started for Colorado. After spending a few months 
at Leadville and other mining camps, he located at Den- 
ver and remained there from 1880-85, when he removed 
to Aspen, Col., and formed his present partnership of 
Wilson & Stimson, Attorneys, etc. Is resident attor- 
ney for the Colorado Midland Railway Co. 

"C. S." like "C. L." is also a. confirmed old bach. 

Orrin Smith Wilson. — Has been a pensioner of 
"Uncle Sam" continuously since graduation — the first 
four years as a member of the U. S. Engineer Corps, 
and the last ten years on the triangulation of New York 
and Engineer expert work for the N. Y. State Board of 
Health. The past year he has been occupied in reduc- 
ing the survey and preparing it for publication. 

" O. S." pulls down the scaUs at 245 lbs., is married 
and reports two boys. 

P. O. address, Kenka, Steuben Co., IST. Y. 

Charles McAllister W^inchell. — Was a life insur- 
ance fiend in Indiana during the fall of 1873, and a R. R. 
Surveyor in Indiana and Illinois the following winter. 
He then went to work for " Uncle Sam" on the Lake 
Survey 1874-79, and on the Mississippi River Survey 
1879-85. The next year he bought wheat in Indiana, 
and then went back to the U. S. Survey of the Red 
River and Texas coast, and says, "The Lord only knows 
where I will bring up next." His present address is 
Galveston, Texas. 

" Winch " has also developed into quite a family 
man, and reports one son and three daughters. 

Edward White Wood. — Returned to his "old Ken- 
tucky home " at Owensboro, immediately after gradua- 



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tion; and, with the exception of a trip to Europe and 
an occasional flight during the heated term, has remained 
there ever since. Is one of the Directors of the First 
Nat. Bank, and junior member of the firm of Turpin & 
Wood, dealers in Strips and Leaf Tobacco. 

As Ed don't write whether he is married or not, he 
is fairly entitled to the presumption of innocence, and so 
your Secretary still "has him on the list" as a bachelor- 
Eugene B. Woodruff. — Returned to the University 
in the fall of 1873 and entered the Law Department, 
graduating with the Class of '75. He removed at once 
to Glenwood, la., and opened a law oflice, where he has 
remained in the practice of his profession ever since. 

He writes: "I am married, and am training up three 
children for a second edition of '73." 

Kimball Young. — Returned to his home atMattoon, 
111., after graduation and after serving a short term as 
bookkeeper in the bank, took up the study of law in 
the office of Charles Bennett. In 1875 he removed to 
Chicago, and the following year was admitted to the 
bar. Clients began to pour in on him so rapidly that 
he concluded to stop and grow up with the town, so he 
unfurled his shing^le to the breeze and has practiced 
there ever since. 

Office address, room 54, Portland Block. 

" Kim " still figures prominently in the ^' eligible 
bachelors' list." 

James William Yule. — Taught school at Somers, 
Wis., 1873-75. He then removed to Alma, in the same 
State, where he occupied the position of principal in the 
High School until his death, which occurred from heart 
disease August 30, 1881, after a short illness of ten or 
twelve days. His health, however, had been considera- 
bly impaired for over a year preceding his death. 



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He was married December 27, 1876, to Miss Lottie 
E. Skinner, of Geneseo, N. Y., and she, together with 
one son, survives him. 



The following are the class officers elected at the 
reunion of June, 1887: 

President — Wm. B. Williams, Lapeer, Mich. 

Secretary and Treasurer — Wm. Carrier Mathews, 
Flint, Mich. 

The next reunion will be held during commencement 
week, 1890. 




